EVENTS

Real Men With Testosterone!

Wayne Allyn Root is thrilled, right down to his little…toes. He’s swimming in a sea of testosterone, and loving it. There’s an abundance of eyeroll coming up, guard yourself.

Root, who just last month repeatedly voiced his disgust that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand had cursed during a speech, couldn’t stop praising Scaramucci’s vulgarity or his amazing manliness.

“It looks like we’re getting the trannies out of the military and we’re getting the real men in the White House,” Root crowed as he bragged that he, like Scaramucci, grew up in New York and therefore knows how to fight and has no problem knocking people’s teeth out.

Root is always talking about fighting, about being able to beat anyone up. In my experience, people who talk constantly about their ability to fight aren’t any good at it. Also, in my experience, reasonable people don’t take glee in the idea of physically fighting. No, transgender people in the military aren’t going anywhere. Just because Donny tweets something, doesn’t make it the TwitterLaw™ of the Land.

“Real men with testosterone, that’s what needs to run America,” he said. “He’s my kind of guy, he’s a real man with testosterone … We finally got people in office with personality instead of a bunch of country club losers and the whole world is freaking out that Trump is going to block transgenders from being in the military and that you’ve got guys like Trump and Scaramucci with our locker room conversation. You know what? This is the real world! Wake up. This is how you become successful. I’ve made millions of dollars in the business world and everyone I’ve dealt with talks like this.”

A vulgar asshole who is incapable of keeping his own counsel. Yeah, that’s what needs to run America. Oh, people with personality, that’s what all this is! Yes, I think we’re all aware that government in this lost country is now an incredible cringefest of a reality show. Far be it from me to decry your personal taste in entertainment, Mr. Root, but this pile of shit does not belong in government, on any level. Just how do you think the Tiny Tyrant is going to block transgender people from the military? He doesn’t have the power to wrinkle his nose and twitch it so.

You know what? That’s not the real world, you dipshit. That’s your fantasy land. The fantasy land of incompetent sociopaths. So, every single person you have ever dealt with talks like that. I guess you would deal mostly with organized crime a great deal then. Good to know.

“In private, this is how guys talk,” Root continued, “and unfortunately, we have a society that doesn’t want men to be men anymore. You want men to be women! I’m sorry, men aren’t supposed to be women, men aren’t supposed to be gay, men aren’t supposed to be transgender, men are men! And you gotta let us be. We like football, we like wrestling, we like MMA, we like boxing, we like beautiful women in bikinis and we say it out loud and if you don’t like it, we don’t really give a damn. That’s what guys are like and Anthony Scaramucci and Donald Trump and Wayne Root are men and you know what? Tough.”

Sigh. Yes, cupcake, we all know what regressive assholes are like, everyone gets to deal with them. That does not mean people approve, or like you. Most of us just don’t want to be trapped in the same room with any of you, and wish to the universe you would learn to shut the fuck up. Men do not have to be neutered willow wands to enjoy homosociality, and there’s nothing wrong with men being able to be free and open about the things they like and dislike. Like sportsball? Great. Don’t like sportsball? Great. You’re one of the worst things to happen to the concept of masculinity, Mr. Root, and thankfully, most men are well aware of that. All you do is follow an outdated concept of masculinity which traps you in a tiny bubble of thought and action, forcing you to live next to no actual life, because you have to constantly feed this notion of what a manly man you are. It’s a fake masculinity, one which demands of men that they never be who they actually are, and that is terribly pathetic.

Comments

More than happy to, if you’ll extend me and everyone else the same courtesy.

We like football, we like wrestling, we like MMA, we like boxing

I obviously don’t speak for all men when I say I really don’t like wearing shorts and getting sweaty and grapply with other men and then showering with them. I’m comfortable with my heterosexuality, thanks. But as I say, to each their own.

, we like beautiful women in bikinis

Ach, you got me, me too. Of course, that’s an appreciation one keeps strictly to oneself if one has any consid…

and we say it out loud and if you don’t like it, we don’t really give a damn

Well obviously, you’re a rich American, that applies to everything in your life.

That’s what guys are like and Anthony Scaramucci and Donald Trump and Wayne Root are men

I’d pay money to watch Donald Trump take a tackle from a football player, a throw from a wrestler, a kick from an MMA fighter or a punch from a boxer, but he’s not that kind of man, nor has he ever been. Those people are indeed men, but they’re a very, very different kind of man than the one described. I can sum them up in a word: golfers. The US has been led by golfers since 1961.

A three-sentence statement from the White House reads: “Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director. Mr Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best.”

An undeservedly nice way of firing him. And yes, the BBC counted the boiler-plate best wishes towards the length, maybe just to emphasise how little effort was spent on it and on showing Scaramucci to the door.

(My lack of basic proof-reading in the previous post is noted with due shame)

A previous post quoted some macho evangelist who argued that Trump’s style of leadership is to collect together a herd of “stallions” ie. testosterone-laden assholes and play them against each other. Well, that’s the very problem.

Blf, to amplify your rebuttal: Years ago I was in a locker room with other men preparing to play sportspuck. One of them made a homophobic comment, but before I could speak, someone else lit into him and explained succinctly what a dunderhead he was. I just listened, smiled, and nodded. At least on the amateur level, sportsball has plenty of dunderheads … and, like the rest of society, plenty of reasonable people to set them straight.
As for Root, I am gratified that he holds Democrats to higher standards than he holds his fellow Rethuglicans.

To further amplify blf, guys don’t talk hugely the sexist, braggart, LGBTQ-phobic and racist talk significantly more when they’re in a single-gender environment (e.g. a public sauna, where women can’t hear them) and have had a few beers.

REAL men never worry about what real men are supposed to be like. I’m a REAL man, so I don’t need to go around talking about how much of a real man I am. It would sound like I was trying to convince myself.

And I would never need to explain what real men are like on the comment section of a blog.